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What Are CLEAR Tokens And What Is ClearNODE?

CLEAR Token is a socially responsible utility token from ClearFoundation that is designed to help build, promote, and defend blockchain-based technologies while enabling a platform and marketplace to make blockchain apps secure and reliable.

50% of the total proceeds from CLEAR Token will fund a Stability Endowment for ClearFoundation and its mission while the remaining 50% will fund the Utility Platform.

CLEAR Token can also be used to purchase ClearCenter’s ClearNODE hardware, software, and services.

ClearNODE is a secure backbone infrastructure, platform, and marketplace for blockchains, digital currencies, and tokens. ClearNODE is a combination of HPE ProLiant server hardware, ClearOS operating system, and ClearCenter software and services via the ClearOS Marketplace.

You will be able to use ClearNODE as a secure decentralized storage device, a hybrid hardware/software wallet, to mine CLEAR Tokens, and more.

CLEAR valuation is set during initial 2018 distribution for ALL CLEAR purchases. Overall value of CLEAR raised will be impacted based on CLEAR Bonus allocated. Pre-sale bonus will be factored into the initial 2018 CLEAR Distribution. Total Clear 2018 distribution will be 30% of overall CLEAR Token supply of 102,400,000,000.

CLEAR Token Distribution Agreement

The CLEAR Token Distribution will take place over 5 years starting on February 06, 2017 at 13:00 GMT and ending on July 4, 2018 at 12:59:59 GMT. One hundred billion (102,400,000,000) CLEAR Tokens will be distributed according to the schedule below:

1. 30% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens will be distributed and farmed beginning on February 6, 2018 at 13:00 GMT and ending on July 4, 2018 at 12:59:59 GMT.

2. 10% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens will be distributed and farmed in 2019.

3. 10% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens will be distributed and farmed in 2020.

4. 10% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens will be distributed and farmed in 2021.

5. 10% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens will be distributed and farmed in 2022. (NOTE: Depending upon adoption of Farming this final 2022 10% may be allocated toward Farmers.)

6. 20% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens to be distributed will be reserved for ClearFoundation Limited and cannot be traded or transferred on the Ethereum network.

7. 2.5% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens to be distributed will be reserved for Security Bug Bounty Hunters and cannot be traded or transferred on the Ethereum network.

8. 7.5% of the total amount of CLEAR Tokens to be distributed will be reserved for farming bonuses and other material issuances and cannot be traded or transferred on the Ethereum network.

CLEAR Token to ClearCREDIT Overview

Clear Tokens can be traded like any other Digital Currency or can be exchanged for CLEAR Credits to purchase ClearCenter hardware, software and services.

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Overview

Serious security issues exist today in the telecommunication and infrastructure technologies that either support or enable Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies.

Protecting both physical and virtual networks is a difficult task. Recent news reports show that both hardware and software wallets are at risk of being hacked through physical and software-based methodologies.

ClearFoundation is uniquely positioned in the market today. ClearCenter offers products available through an exclusive partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise hardware and services. By combining these services with ClearFoundation software and ClearCenter management tools, ClearFoundation can provide an unmatched and secure backbone architecture to secure Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains.

This packaged offering from ClearFoundation enables a new generation of uses including our value as a service, end-to-end secure audits, private exchanges, new mining options, and much more.

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The ClearNODE Vision

In order to provide the most secure backbone for blockchains and blockchain currencies, the ClearNODE infrastructure and packaged apps protect your system on all four critical layers server, chip, disk and apps. ClearNODE is the only architecture available today that can fully secure all four layers.

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ClearNODE Product Components

ClearFoundation’s ClearNODE bundled managed service solution of HPE hardware, ClearOS applications & services is built on and for the blockchain.

ClearOS

ClearOS is the only simple, secure, and affordable way to manage IT resources. ClearOS is a Linux-based open source operating system for managing cloud, server, network and gateway layers. Thanks to its web-based GUI and the ClearOS Marketplace, you can fully utilize the power of Linux services without becoming a Linux expert or knowing how to use the Linux command line interface.

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Deploy & Manage the IT Layers you want, when you're ready.

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Report and track bandwidth, user usage and much more...

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Quickly see what needs your attention.

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Open. Simple. Secure. Scalable. Manage intelligently integrated apps.

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Years in Development

135

Marketplace Apps

154

Countries With Installations

437,400

Deployments

110.3M

Protected Users

ClearVM

ClearVM is the fastest to deploy, most secure, and easiest to use virtualization platform in the market today. With ClearVM, you can manage both physical and virtual machines without installing a centralized management system. Plus, ClearVM upgrades itself requiring zero maintenance on your part. Patent: US 13/460,660

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Unified Decentralized Blockchain Gateway Management

New ClearOS Blockchain Focused Apps

ClearGM - Blockchain Network Protection & Security

Secure the blockchain network from external and internal threats with Gateway. Management from ClearGM. Its zero-trust model is like a next-generation VPN but more secure using DNS-based filtering, machine-learning, and full egress control.

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Decentralized Remote Security Audit Service

Blockchain Remote Security Audit is a service for system administrators to limit the damage potential of
corrupted or altered system files. The service quickly notifies administrators so that damage-control measures can be taken in a timely manner. The service utilizes ClearCenter's SDN cloud service and protects against a malicious attacker disguising any intrusion due to the creation of a unique hash which is stored in the cloud then validated against subsequent audits.

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Secure Decentralization Management

Gain visibility into your entire environment with ClearCenter's new Secure Decentralization
Management tool. It securely provides oversight for all of your network and connected devices even across decentralized and distributed environments.

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Remote Blockchain Backup

ClearCenter's Remote Blockchain Backup Service app provides secure, simple and reliable backup around the world in a region of your choice. Your data is encrypted — both in transit and at rest — in clusters managed and secured by ClearCenter. You maintain total control over the encryption keys.

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ClearSHARE

ClearCenter's Blockchain Storage App is similar to a NAS but with added redundancy and security. It stores your mirrored data locally on-premises and also in a sharded, encrypted, and decentralized peer-to-peer cloud. ClearCenter automatically shreds , encrypts, and distributes your files across a decentralized network. No one else but you has access to keys or controls your files. The blockchain ensures consistency and verifiability, while decentralization and redundancy on the network means that a local disaster or service interruption cannot cause a loss of data.

Dynamic SSL App

Blockchain Mining App

Most Cryptocurrencies require a proof- of -work model to mine coins requiring high CPU/GPU utilization that wastes both electricity and hardware resources. CLEAR is based on a secure proof- of- unused Space model that is less wasteful and more decentralized while enabling new capabilities.

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ClearWALLET App

ClearCenter’s ClearWALLET blockchain-based wallet app functions as a hardware wallet, software wallet, or a hybrid wallet. Private keys can be protected from internal and external threats through DNS-based zero-trust model technology from ClearGM which controls all egress traffic from the wallet.

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Partners & Leadership

ClearFoundation Governing Board

Michael Proper

FOUNDER & CEO

Over the past 21 years, Michael has helped start and grow numerous companies in the IT industry and helped create the MSP sector.

Ray Mihaere

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Strong Industry Experience of Leadership Team

Michael Proper

FOUNDER & CEO

Over the past 21 years, Michael has helped start and grow numerous companies in the IT industry and helped to create what is now known as the Managed Services Provider (MSP) sector. Prior to starting ClearCenter he started DirectPointe (an IT service company) & DPFS (an IT financing company) he also helped launch and establish Calculated Research & Technology and Veritas Solutions (both IT solution companies). Michael is a creator and knows how to produce results by rounding-up great teams and helping them to focus on simple yet measurable, transparent goals. In addition, Michael has successfully acquired & integrated many great IT companies, including iTOK, Center7 (Helpdesk & NOC), STI, System Works & S3. Take a peek at how Michael's Team ranked in the MSP world.

David Loper

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

Since 1980, David has worked extensively with nearly every major computer-related technology. He enjoys electronics, physics, theater, and gaming. In the mid-1990s he was introduced to Linux and has been a proponent of Open Source ever since. He has worked on a variety of projects including Network/Telecom design, Server infrastructure architecture, Database integration projects, and Cross-platform Identity/Security integration. His 'there has to be a way' attitude brings practical and useful innovation to ClearCenter. Prior to joining ClearCenter, David worked with Corel, Metrix BPM and DirectPointe.

Peter Baldwin

COSA

Peter was co-founder of Point Clark Networks where he focused on product development of the ClarkConnect Linux distribution. He produced several releases of the product since 2000 including release 4.3 prior to the ClearCenter acquisition. Peter has worked in South Africa and Zimbabwe as an Internet Consultant and in Canada for EDS. Peter has been a licensed professional engineer in Ontario since 1997. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering with honors from Queen's University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Pascal J. Budge

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Prior to joining ClearCenter, Pascal served as IAP’s global ethics and compliance programs, corporate training initiatives, security, global trade compliance, and quality programs and DynCorp International COO and Business Development Capture Manager. Pascal has a broad International set of experiences leading and managing NATO sponsored security, law enforcement and military training missions in Afghanistan and Iran, as an international civilian police advisor on the United Nations Police Mission in Haiti, served in leadership positions supporting the UN International Police Task Force missions in Bosnia and Kosovo, managed startup-up activities for protective security services in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and Haiti and was responsible for operational management of rule-of-law programs in Palestine, Sudan and Liberia.

Blaine Raddon

SENIOR VP SALES

Prior to joining ClearCenter, Blaine Raddon was the Director at HPE over Worldwide GTM, RTM and Enablement for HPE’s growth and incubation products. He was part of the HPE Business Group Sales organization responsible for driving the design, development, and deployment of HPEs strategic efforts. While at HPE he was responsible for driving and developing HPE's channel offerings, HPE’s global partner sales enablement efforts and key strategic relationships. Blaine worked in the WW Business Group Sales organization and was responsible for development of the HPE strategy to build a sustainable competitive advantage for both HPE Sales organizations and its channel partners. Blaine has been a channel professional for more than 28 years. His career has been in the IT industry, selling hardware, software and services through all aspects of the IT channel. Prior to joining HP, Blaine was with Acronis Software as General Manager for the America’s. Prior to Acronis, Blaine spent five years at Juniper Networks, where he was Vice President, Americas Commercial and Partner Sales, responsible for the overall enablement of the America’s partner community as well being the sales leader for the America’s SMB sales organization. Before Juniper, Blaine held executive leadership roles in sales and channels at IBM for over 20 years. Blaine also served 7 years in the US Army. Blaine has an MBA from Pepperdine University with an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in Marketing.

Colin Kelly

Senior VP Marketing

Colin has spent the last 18 years researching and analyzing the virtualization, hardware, software, open source, security, and smartphone/tablet industries focusing on business models, market forces, customer demographics and UI/UX design. Colin has led multiple teams of developers and marketing staff during stints at Nuvestack, V3 Systems, and Celio Corp where he focused on the integration of desktop virtualization, cloud automation, and mobile platforms. He was a co-founder and the Executive Editor of Connect Magazine covering the intersection of business, technology and entrepreneurship. Colin is an honorary associate editor for CrossTalk - the Journal of Defense Software Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal published by the United States Department of Defense.

David Redekop

SVP SECURITY ARCHITECT

David is co-founder of Gateway.Management and co-founded Nerds On Site Inc, a large Hybrid Service Provider with more than 300 “Nerds” around the World. He has a passion for technology, especially in how it can improve our lives and organizations. David has enjoyed the non-stop pursuit of the better-in-class technologies that can enable enterprises, businesses, and individuals alike. He studied Computer Science and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo.

Benjamin Chambers

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

SVP Benjamin was a co-founder of Point Clark Networks. He was an active developer on the ClarkConnect Small Business Server and Service Delivery Network platforms, and managed Point Clark Networks' Value Added Reseller network spanning forty countries which focused on deploying managed, Linux-based solutions to the SMB market. He has an Engineering degree from Queen's University (Kingston, ON) and has been a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng.) in the province of Ontario since 1996.

Vlado Petrushev

VP CRYPTO SOLUTIONS

Vlado started his career programming spreadsheets at IBM, soon after got a lead tech support role on a VoIP project within IBM and parallely worked on a hardware asset management on IBM’s data centers in Frankfurt. Beside involvement in corporate world, Vlado is an early Bitcoin adopter, was part of distributed storage project Storj, and externally consulted Blockchain (blockchain.info) on market strategy related topics. His education background involves Economics and Computer Networks. Vlado speaks 5 languages and likes to spend time cycling in the mountains and usually he starts his day in the swimming pool.

Darryl Sokoloski

ENGINEERING ARCHITECT

Darryl brings over 15 years of professional software development experience to ClearCenter. He has spent the last 9 years working as a software developer at Point Clark Networks. During that time Darryl has been mainly focused on developing the secure protocol components of the Service Delivery Network.

Shad Lords

CORE BUILD MANAGER

Shad brings to ClearCenter more than two decades of extensive systems and software development experience. He has a passion for open source ecosystems having served as a quality assurance tester for the CentOS Project and a Core Developer for both the ClearFoundation and SME Server. He has held a variety of positions within the public and private sectors over the last 20 years including stints at the State of Utah, Department of Technology Services, Contribs.org, Turbyne, and Nycom. Shad earned a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science degree at Brigham Young University.

Mike Howe

AUDIT MANAGER

Mike received his Masters of Accountancy at the University of New Mexico and has many years of financial accounting experience ranging from Financial Institutions to Government/Non-profit audits and tax.

Nicole Child

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

Nicole Child is a Professional self-starter with extensive experience as an Executive Assistant/IT Administrator primarily in Financial Services and Marketing. Excellent communicator with strong organizational skills who thrives and works well under pressure. Utilizes own initiative but also works well within a team. Highly adaptable to change with a flexible approach when taking on new tasks.

Scott Dastrup

MEDIA PRODUCTION MANAGER

Scott is a wizard in the corporate video production world and helps tell the ClearCenter story by actively filming, editing and producing many of the ClearOS video productions and helps to film Customer and Partner Success videos.

Michael K. Simpson

SVP OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

For over 30 years Michael has been an internationally sought after executive coach, business advisor, and instructor on strategy, execution, building high performance culture, and leadership development to some of the top executive teams in the world, including: General Electric, PepsiCo, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, IBM, Marriott, Hilton, Frito Lay, Eli-Lilly, Baxter Healthcare, John Deere, ExxonMobil, Petronas, TE Connectivity, Department of Defense, and Nike to name a few. Michael is the author or co-author of seven coaching and leadership books and several articles, including: Unlocking Potential, Talent Unleashed, Ready, Aim, Excel, The Execution-focused Leader, and Your Seeds of Greatness. Michael is the CEO at Simpson Executive Coaching. For 22 years, Michael has been the Managing Director of Executive Coaching and a Senior Consultant at FranklinCovey where he has trained and coached leaders in over thirty countries. Michael was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at MediConnect Global and Vice President of Business Development at America To Go. He also worked as a Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting firm in their strategic and organizational consulting practice in New York City, NY. He has been a professor for one year at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. He has also been a visiting instructor at University of Hong Kong, University of Malaysia, BYU’s Marriott School of Business, Kennedy School of International Studies, Fulton School of Engineering, and Columbia College School of Business.
Michael holds a masters in Organizational Behavior from Columbia University and a bachelors from the Kennedy School of International Studies from Brigham Young University.
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John Fallentine

Awareness MANAGER

John has overseen the development, production, and maintenance of corporate websites for many of the largest corporations in the Information Technology world. He is a master at developing internet strategy, information flow, and usability. For ClearOne Communications he reduced 100% of Pay-Per-Click advertising by streamlining SEO methods and producing lasting organic results by intelligently integrating new training systems to present modules and grant certificates after users passed a test.

David Politis

VP Communications

For 30+ years, David has defined and directed marketing campaigns that have helped his employers realize over $1.1 billion in increased valuations through Public Offerings, IPOs, increased share prices, mergers, acquisitions, debt offerings, and venture capital, strategic and private financings.

Tyler Randolph

PARTNER MANAGER

Prior to joining ClearCenter, Tyler was a Website Maintenance Specialist at Boostability. He is an experienced Technical Specialist within the Website industry. Skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Customer Support, Customer Service, Advertising, and E-commerce. Strong operations professional currently attending Utah Valley University.

Richard E. Bowser

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Richard is an HR/Operations, and technology professional with a diverse skillset and the ability to quickly identify operational needs. He has a strong attention to detail with keen insight and employs an investigative approach to identifying and achieving strategic and corporate objectives with a particular focus in the areas of Business Process Improvement, Project/Task Management, Data Analysis/KPIs that drive individual efforts and the unification teams to produce results and increase ROI. Over the last decade he has worked at a number of technology companies including ADP and Simplus who were pioneers or early adopters in transforming their core products to capitalize on API and cloud-based SaaS technologies.

Courtney Jones

L1 SUPPORT ENGINEER

Courtney graduated from Utah State University with a degree in Management Information Systems in May 2017 after attending InTech Collegiate High School, a STEM-focused early college high school. Prior to joining ClearCenter, he worked for Conservice. He enjoys reading, playing board/card games, and making new friends.

Nick Howitt

L2 SUPPORT ENGINEER

Nick is one of the world’s foremost experts in deploying and maintaining ClearOS. Even before he worked for ClearCenter he was a top community forum leader helping thousands of ClearOS users making him extremely helpful now as a support engineer. Nick graduated in Engineering at Cambridge University in 1982 and has worked in manufacturing Production Planning and Control in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors. Nick started with ClearOS many years ago during
version 4.3 and learned with a home server. From there he developed knowledge and became the the all-time leading support poster on the ClearOS forum.

Edwin Gualotuna

FINANCE MANAGER

Edwin is a seasoned accountant and accomplished racing car driver. He understands the principles of cost efficiency and getting the job done. Edwin graduated with a degree in accounting from Utah Valley University. He has raced in the INDYCAR and USF2000 professional motorsports series.

Kimberly Fawn

SUPPORT ANALYST

Kimberly has been involved with the software industry for almost 30 years. She has a background in computer science and software design. She has broad experience in UI/UX, product design, technical support, technical writing and multiple training programs.

Philip G. Jones

LEGAL AND CORP SECRETARY

Philip graduated from J. Reuben Clark Law School in December of 1979 and was admitted to the Utah State and Federal Bars in May of 1980. He received his initial Mediation Training from Utah Dispute Resolution in May of 1998. He has previously worked at various firms and organizations including Jones, Gilliam and Jensen; McCullough, Jones and Ivins; Utah Attorney General's Office; and the Freedom Bridge Institute.

Shiv Kumar Sharma

CLEARVM ARCHITECT MANAGER

Shiv has over 9 years of experience in the field of software development. Worked on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Extensive experience as Software Developer with Bank of America, Calsoft, Zenith Infotech

Alejandro Vargas

CALL CENTER MANAGE

Alejandro exhibits a keen ability to simplify client communication through decades of call center management. Hondo is a well educated leader who has built and led many teams and businesses through business process outsourcing and call center operations. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management, followed by an MBA from the University of Utah. His team is responsible for all customer outreach and inside sales efforts within ClearCenter.

Greg Jackson

TREASURY MANAGER

Greg is a brilliant financial mind with decades in public and private finance, domestically and internationally. Greg has spent his career holding many executive positions with multiple international banks, working as financial services with many Fortune 500 companies. Greg earned a Diploma in Chinese Law, a BA, MBA and later a Ph.D. from the University of Buckingham, Buckingham UK. Greg is responsible for all treasury matters at ClearCenter.

Mikael Lirbank

VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER

Mikael Lirbank has worked with startups in the IT / Internet sector for more then 18 years. He's tech savvy with a strong entrepreneurial drive. In 2011 Mikael founded Witsbits, which was recently sold to ClearCenter. Prior to Witsbits Michael worked with Switchcore, a fabless semiconductor company. Mikael was a party of Switchcore's founding team (three guys in a garage) through the IPO in 1999. Switchcore Developed the fastest Ethernet switch cores of the time and solar them as a white labeled chips to the Customers like Intel and Huawei.

Daniel Riveiro

VIRTUALIZATION ENGINEER

Daniel is a software developing genius with a seemingly endless bag of development tricks up his sleeve. He's a skilled engineer who's led many international organizations with projects written in Java, PHP ,MySQL ,WebApp, EmberJS, jQuery, grunt, C, git-, svnserver, GitHub, Perl, script, is versed in almost any OS, & API integration. Daniel is responsible for cutting edge design and development of the ClearVM technology for ClearCorp and is a value development engineer in the Virtualization Team at ClearCenter.

David Saedi

CERTIFICATION MANAGER

David possesses more than 29 years of management experience in the certification industry. Including founding the National Trust for Emerging Standards in Testing (NTEST) and helping to start and lead Certiport’s efforts in development of the world's first globally recognized standard for digital literacy - the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³). Companies like Microsoft and Adobe and Educational Testing Services (ETS), selected Certiport to help develop and deliver application specific certifications. During David’s tenure Certiport expanded operations to serve populations in more than 140 countries and 24 languages, further David founded the Global Digital Literacy Council comprised of educational leaders from 30 countries to oversee and ensure continued currency and relevancy of the global standard. David holds an MBA from the City University Business School in London, England.

Justin Flanagan

IP LEGAL COUNCIL

Justin is an associate in the Technology and Intellectual Property group in the Salt Lake City office. He focuses on electrical, computer and software patent preparation and prosecution in the United States and in foreign countries. His practice encompasses due diligence investigations, pre-litigation patent analysis, freedom-to-operate assessments in light of new product introductions and trademark procurement. In addition to advising clients on developing, protecting and utilizing intellectual property rights, Justin counsels clients on intellectual property licensing.

Shiv Jangid

DESIGN MANAGER

With over 15 years of extensive experience in the digital media space of web designing, Shiv has thorough understanding of web technologies and trends, usability techniques, and best of breed interface solutions. Demonstrating expert-level experience in designing usable web-based interfaces for consumer facing websites and software applications / platforms, he has solid understanding of HTML/XHTML and CSS with operational elements of JavaScript, Flash, AJAX, JQUERY and DHTML. With his knowledge of Responsive web interface, and broad experience in rich "Web 2.0" and SEO centric design techniques, Shiv has a key role in establishing a right foundation for ClearCenter. Here, he manages concept development and creative areas of visual design, graphic design, user interface and experience design.

Vikash Jangid

DEV MANAGER

Vikash Jangid has more than 5 years in the IT industry, Vikash is well versed with all the details and intricacies of web designing, web development, and SEO. He manages a ClearCenter team of strategists, design artists, illustrators, developers and writers to work side by side to deliver one-of-a-kind products, customized to specific needs. Under his skillful management and guidance, he has worked on various projects, belonging to various industrial and educational sectors, providing users with quality web design, clean codes, customized graphics and smooth functionality. Being a young entrepreneur, team spirit, passion for work and challenging the norm drives his ethics.

Vikas Jerthi

PROJECT MANAGER

Vikas, an excellent manager and team motivator has experience of over 7 years takes a leading role in all the phases of a project cycles. Armed with impressive communication and people management skills, he has a knack of motivating and guiding his team to deliver results that go beyond what they believe their potential to be. He is well versed in Technologies: PHP, CakePHP, Zend, CI, Laravel, Yii, Wordpress, joomla, Drupal, Magento and Networking domain: Linux, Window server 2012 and 2008, CCNA, CCNP in routing and switching. Known for a proven ability to develop systemic strategies that effectively increase work quality and decrease turnaround time, he currently serves as a Project Manager at ClearCenter.

Overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the project, Reporting
periodically to all the stakeholders, Project Planning and Tracking, Risk analysis,
Counter action and Team building and on site deployment.

Marc Laporte

COMMUNITY MANAGER

Marc has been project admin for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware since 2003 and started working with ClearCenter in 2014. Tiki is the Free / Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features. Tiki is software made the wiki way where over 300 people have contributed to the source code, making it one of the largest open source Web applications in the World. Tiki is used in tens of thousands of web sites/projects/communities/companies. The vast collaborative documentation effort is over 1000 pages, which is a testament to the scope of the project. Also, Tiki was awarded a 2010 Bossie award (Best of Open Source Software).

Tim Burgess

COMMUNITY MODERATOR

Tim Burgess brings over 7 years of professional software development experience on ClearOS and has built many apps ranging from ownCloud to Zarafa. He truly cares about serving others and gives to others by contributing extensions to ClearOS via the ClearOS Marketplace, allowing access to some great open source software.

Jeff Beatty

COMMUNITY LOCALIZATION

Jeff is a language and technology professional, who currently works for Mozilla, helping people around the world connect with technology more intimately than ever before. He firmly believes that technology is the medium for ensuring the perpetuation of language and culture in the digital age and is exploring the potential of volunteering some of his cycles to help the ClearFoundation accomplish future translation needs. His specialties are software localization, internationalization, globalization, project management, translation, global product strategy, crowdsourcing, technical writing.

Ray Mihaere

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Ray is a skilled communicator focused on improving worldwide awareness of ClearFoundation & ClearOS. Ray spent 20 years in the military giving him a broad and rich ability to communicate with people of all nations; from villagers to executive officers. His leadership and management experience drives new initiatives for creating viral awareness of ClearOS.

Shaun Ellensohn

COMMUNITY MARSHALL

Shaun is a master at sniffing out nasty Forum spammers and is committed to help keep the ClearOS Forum clean. He has a history providing IT Support for Medical companies and is a longtime user of ClearOS.

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_History

History

ClearFoundation

The ClearFoundation is a New Zealand company which was created in 2009 with the purpose of developing and maintaining ClearOS under a Simple, Secure, and Affordable open source model. The foundation exists to ensure that every small business and distributed IT environment on the globe can have access to enterprise-grade IT security, privacy, filtration, and management tools.

ClearOS began life as ClarkConnect in May 2000 as an innovative and easy-to-use Linux-based operating system with a simple web-based GUI featuring automatic updates via a Service Delivery Network. The original developers of ClarkConnect (Peter Baldwin and Ben Chambers) continue to maintain and grow ClearOS today in addition to the thousands of Linux and open source developers and community members who maintain its core functionality from around the globe.

ClearCenter

Formed by Founder and CEO Michael Proper in 2009, ClearCenter is focused on delivering stable IT solutions based on Cloud, Server, Network, and Gateway layers that make delivering IT highly scalable and easy to manage.

Michael's vision around a simple, highly scalable platform stemmed from his experience starting and growing DirectPointe, Inc. from its inception in 2000 to the top of its industry and its acknowledgment as the world’s No. 1 MSP in 2007-2008 by MSPMentor.

Today, ClearCenter supports more than 10 million end-users spanning more than 430,000 deployments in 154 countries worldwide and in over 86 languages.

Yes. However, keep in mind you may not be able to take advantage of one key feature — Silicon Root of Trust on select HPE ProLiant servers . The ClearNODE infrastructure software is designed for bundled use on pre-configured HPE ProLiant servers. This allows for us to secure all four critical layers — Server, Chip, Disk and Apps.

ClearOS is the only Simple, Secure, and Affordable way to manage IT resources. ClearOS is a Linux-based open source operating system for managing Cloud, Server, Network and Gateway layers. Thanks to its web-based GUI and the ClearOS Marketplace, you can fully utilize the power of Linux services without becoming a Linux expert or knowing how to use the Linux command line interface.

ClearFoundation develops and maintains Clear products including ClearOS for ClearCenter and the broader open source community. The foundation exists to ensure that every small business and distributed IT environment on the globe can have access to enterprise-grade IT security, privacy, filtration, and management tools.

Finalizing the Logo

Always maintain clear space around the Clearfoundation signature to protect the logo form distracting graphics or typography.